Digital Media reading for Wed Mar 27

Respond:

• A Short History of the Internet by Bruce Sterling

Digital Media reading for Wed Mar 20

Respond:

• Dick, Philip K., Pay for the Printer

Explaining Diagrams: a short introduction

Digital Media 1 reading for Oct 22

Respond:

• Dick, Philip K., Pay for the Printer

Interactive Media readings for Oct 3

Respond:

• See Who’s Editing Wikipedia – Diebold, the CIA… (Wired)
• Josh McHugh, Should Web Giants Let Startups Use the Information They Have About You?
• How Google crawls, indexes, and serves the web(Google)

Digital Media 1 reading for Oct 10

Respond:

• Forster, E.M. – The Machine Stops (1909)

Digital Media assignment #2: Animated GIFs in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Produce at least three short movies that explore themes from the readings (Simulacra and Simulations by Jean Baudrillard, Remix(ing) Re/Appropriations by Eduardo Navas, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin), films, and discussions from this section of the course. For each short, experiment with explicit or metaphorical references to the content of the course such as semiotics (sign and signifier), simulation and simulacra, remix (creative appropriation), and the way technology affects art and culture. Do more than illustrate these concepts, develop your own language that extends them. Use of appropriated materials is encouraged with the caveat that it should meet the definition of fair use from the Copyright Act of 1976. Specifically, the use of others’ materials should be transformative, not derivative, and/or it should parody (comment on, critique, etc.) the original work(s).

Medium(s): Animated GIFs or Flash movies (SWF or FLVs)

Digital Media reading for Sept 26

Respond:

• Benjamin, Walter, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (I-V)

Interactive Media reading for Sept 26

Respond:

• Interface Design: Login/SignUp (post your top 3 and why)
• 10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs
• Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces by Tyler Tate
• Theresa Neil, Designing Web Interfaces: 12 Standard Screen Patterns

Interactive Media reading for Sept 24

Respond

• Bourriaud, Nicolas – Relational form (chapter 1) in Relational Aesthetics, 1998